The National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda in performance at the Kennedy Center.
In Thursday’s (3/27) Washington Classical Review, George Grella writes, “The Kennedy Center announced the 2025-26 season Thursday morning for both the National Symphony Orchestra and chamber music performances from ensembles, soloists, and vocalists that cover repertoire from the baroque era to the contemporary, and national, moment. The season will include five world premiere commissions by Philip Glass, Valerie Coleman, Carlos Simon (Kennedy Center composer-in-residence), Reena Esmail and Peter Boyer. Music director Gianandrea Noseda … will lead the NSO in ten weeks of concerts. The September 27 season-opening gala will feature Copland’s ‘Fanfare for the Common Man,’ pianist Yuja Wang playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Simons’ ‘Warmth of Other Suns’ and ‘Capriccio Espagnol’ by Rimsky-Korsakov. The first subscription program … will have pianist Simon Trpčeski playing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2, Mel Bonis’ Three Dances, and the complete Daphnis et Chloé ballet music by Ravel…. Other programming highlights include Alexander Zemlinsky’s vocal Lyric Symphony … the Adagio from Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 and Strauss’ ‘Till Eulenspiegel’s lustige Streiche’ … The orchestra will play Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’ in a concert that opens with pianist Daniil Trifonov playing Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 … Noseda leads a concert performance of Puccini’s opera Il Trittico … Along with many other arts organizations, the NSO is celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.”
